India Chipchase’s killer was arrested for sexual assault just days before her murder but police freed him on bail

THE man who raped and murdered the daughter of an Adelaide doctor in the UK was bailed over an alleged sexual assault just days earlier, it has been revealed.

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CCTV shows the moment India Chipchase got into a taxi with Edward Tenniswood who was convicted of her rape and murder

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THE man who raped and murdered the daughter of an Adelaide doctor in the UK was bailed over an alleged sexual assault just days earlier, it has been revealed.

India Chipchase, 20, was raped and killed by Edward Tenniswood at his squalid Northhampton home in January 2016 after he found her drunk outside a nightclub.

A jury found him guilty of murder and rape in August 2016 after rejecting his claims the pair had consensual sex and her death was a result of his “overeagerness” in bed.

It has since been revealed Tenniswood was quizzed over a 2005 sex attack, an Independent Police Complaints Commission report said.

He had been linked to the assault in March 2015 but was not arrested until January 18 last year.

Tenniswood was bailed the next morning — and 11 days later killed India.

India Chipchase. Source: FacebookSource:Supplied

The IPCC said two detectives were investigated over the inquiry into the 2005 attack but found to have no case to answer, The Sun reported.

The delay in Tenniswood’s arrest was blamed on the way the force managed CID resources.

But the IPCC said the failure was not to blame for India’s death.

Edward Tenniswood.Source:Supplied

The commission’s Guido Liguori added: “While the investigation in 2015 may have been progressed more swiftly, there is no clear basis for concluding that would have led to him being in custody at the time of the murder.”

The IPCC also found Northamptonshire Police’s response after India’s mum reported her missing was appropriate.

Supt Mark Behan, of the force’s professional standards department, said: “The processes in place in CID at the time were not what they should have been and changes to the tasking process have already been made.”

Tenniswood was found guilty of the rape and ­murder of India and jailed for at least 30 years.

The 2005 case has been shelved in light of his conviction in Ms Chipchase’s murder.

Other potential offences — which he denied and were never prosecuted — were mentioned in his murder trial in July last year.